URA (Undergraduate Research Assistant)Interested in research? If so, the Honors College URA Program may be just what you are looking for!Honors College Students who have completed their freshman year can participate formally in faculty research as a way of satisfying the honors requirement. UIC has a wealth of outstanding researchers, and the Undergraduate Research Assistant Program gives honors students an opportunity to work with some of them. The range of research activity is wide, including business, education, engineering , the humanities and the arts, the natural sciences and mathematics, and the social sciences.
Undergraduate Research Assistants are expected to put in approximately six hours a week on a project that is part of, or relevant to, the faculty member's research. The faculty will explain how the work done by the student fits into the larger project, and will make sure that the activity, whatever it is, has educational benefit for the students. Students who participate in the URA program should register for HON 225 when their URA application is submitted, and arrangements have been made with a supervising faculty member. A complete directory of URA faculty, listing their research interests, is available in the Honors College office. How to begin your URA: 1. Select a faculty member with
whom you would like to work. 2. Complete the online URA Application. 3. Register for HON 225 -- Honors Research for 0 credit hours.
You must also be registered for HON 222.
4. Submit the signed confirmation
of your URA. 5. Submit the
URA Completion Form on line at the end of semester. |